Friday, 12 December 2014

Christmas Break is near!

Hi everyone!  We are all getting very excited for the upcoming holiday and being able to spend time with family and friends.  The next five days of school will have special Christmas activities in Language and Math.  On Friday there will be some fun Primary wide activities for the whole morning, like we did for Halloween.  Also on Friday will be pajama day.  Feel free to dress comfortably.

I hope that you all enjoy your Christmas vacation and I will see you in the new year.  I can't wait to hear about all your adventures.

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Inferring

Over the last 2-3 weeks, we have been learning to infer so  we can understand a variety of texts.  We have looked at various advertisements for toys, airline companies and cars to determine what the author of the advertisements were trying to tell us.  What is the hidden meaning of the text??  We have learned to use the clues from the text and our background knowledge to 'read between the lines.

We have also read two books that had no words and had to figure out what the author really meant.  They were so much fun to 'read'!